Bishop James Foley

Bishop Emeritus of Cairns, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
19 Jul 1948		Born
7 Aug 1973	25.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Brisbane, Australia
16 Jul 1992	43.9	Appointed	Bishop of Cairns, Australia
21 Aug 1992	44.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Cairns, Australia
21 Aug 2022	74.0	Resigned	Bishop of Cairns, Australia

MicroData Summary
James Foley
Bishop James Foley
(born 19 Jul 1948)
Bishop Emeritus of Cairns

Event Place
Birth Place Brisbane, Archdiocese of Brisbane
Ordained Bishop Saint Monique, Cathedral, Cairns, Diocese of Cairns

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Cairns.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Francis Roberts Rush †
Archbishop of Brisbane
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Alexius Bathersby †
Archbishop of Brisbane
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Francis Roberts Rush †
Archbishop Emeritus of Brisbane
Bishop John Ahern Torpie †
Bishop Emeritus of Cairns

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop John Alexius Bathersby † (1986)
Archbishop of Brisbane
Archbishop Francis Roberts Rush † (1961)
Archbishop of Brisbane
Archbishop Maximilien de Fürstenberg † (1949)
Titular Archbishop of Paltus
Jozef-Ernest Cardinal van Roey † (1926)
Archbishop of Mechelen
Archbishop Clemente Micara † (1920)
Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Syria
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Timothy James Harris (2017)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1680393

Source(s):

c1: AustOceaniaBishops.org
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 131, Number 11,789
r: Bollettino, 21 Aug 2022

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